Lucas Till Quotes
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
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A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.
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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.
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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
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Angus is a pretty crappy name.
